Leaves of Grass : The First (1855) Edition

by Whitman, Walt (Author); Cowley, Malcolm (Editor/introduction)

• ISBN13: 9780140421996
• ISBN10: 0140421998
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781101659625
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780670000982
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1986-03-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Summary

"Leaves of Grass," first published in 1855, contained twelve long untitled poems, but Whitman continued to expand it throughout his life. Whitman's poetry was unprecedented in its unapologetic joy in the physical and its inextricable link to the spiritual. As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote to him: "I am very happy in reading ["Leaves of Grass"], as great power makes us happy ... I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be."

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction	vii
LEAVES OF GRASS
Facsimile Frontispiece	2	(1)
Facsimile Title Page	3	(2)
Whitman's Introduction	5	(20)
Song of Myself1	25	(62)
A Song for Occupations	87	(11)
To Think of Time	98	(7)
The Sleepers	105	(11)
I Sing the Body Electric	116	(8)
Faces	124	(5)
Song of the Answerer	129	(4)
Europe: The 72d and 73d Years of These States	133	(2)
A Boston Ballad	135	(3)
There Was a Child Went Forth	138	(2)
Who Learns My Lesson Complete	140	(2)
Great Are the Myths	142